Introduction to the bio-entity recognition task at JNLPBA

Authors: Jin-Dong Kim, Tomoko Ohta, Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Yuka Tateisi, Nigel Collier - Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications - JNLPBA '04 2004 cited by 581

We describe here the JNLPBA shared task of bio-entity recognition using an extended version of the GENIA version 3 named entity corpus of MEDLINE abstracts. We provide background information on the task and present a general discussion of the approaches taken by participating systems.